I hope everyone has a very Happy St. Patricks Day! Here are some fun facts that I got from the Huffington Post:
- First St. Patrick's Day parade took place in 1737 in Boston
- Saint Patrick was not Irish by birth; he was a Romano-Briton Christian missionary born in England
- Did not become a national holiday in Ireland in 1903 and the first parade wasn't held in Dublin until 1931
- An estimated 13 million pints of Guinness will be consumed on St. Patrick's Day 2010, according to a Guinness (too bad I am feeling to sick to drink some!)
- The color originally associated with St. Patrick was blue; green became associated during the 19th century
- St. Patrick's celebrations were originally religious festivals
- There are four places in the United States named Shamrock (West Virginia, Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma) and nine Dublin's (Dublin, California and Dublin, Ohio are most populous)
